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Home Economics

Back in Grandma's day as well as today, Home Ec includes:

Food, nutrition and health; textiles and clothing; shelter and housing; consumerism and consumer science; household management; design and technology; food science and hospitality; human development and family studies; education and community services, among other subjects.

I wrote about this a bit at my personal blog before and it's why I've amassed quite a collection! I do share some of the practical things, including recipes, here at Things Your Grandmother Knew;
but my main interest is in the cultural stuff. Anyone else collect
cookbooks? If so, for the recipes or the culture? Comment here or on my Facebook Page. I really do want to hear from you! Thanks!

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Some of the best kitchen and household tips were published during World War II when recycling & rationing was vital not only for the nation's economy, but necessary for the survival of each family.

Some of these tips were handed-down from grandma, but were often they were dismissed as cute anecdotes, stories of 'hard times and hard work' which were not necessary in times of prosperity and a plethora of modern conveniences.

As a result, many of these kitchen and household tips have been lost to history -- unless you collect vintage magazines.

There, in the yellowing brittle pages, you'll find a slew of household tips that are amazingly still practical today.

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About

Deanna Dahlsad

Deanna Dahlsad, an avid collector of many things but especially
kitsch and "things pertaining to female history".

Deanna was raised in a family of antique collectors and dealers. Her
childhood was filled with the obligation to wake early on weekends and
dig through the tossed-away bits of other peoples’ lives. Happily, she
was able to use these skills in the service of her own collecting
interests: vintage clothing, pin-up art, Gene Dolls, nudie magazines,
pulp novels, cosmetic jars & compacts -- anything that documents
the history of women -- as well as vintage textiles & random
collections as whims allow… She also has a weakness for printed matter,
and so ephemera and books are hoarded in quantities too large to be
called "collections".

The only thing she loves more than collecting -- and her family -- is talking-err, writing (nearly anything but bios for herself); in the guise of
antique dealer and writer, she has found a way to justify both her
obsessions with objects and her unnatural appreciation for discussing
them.

Any rumors that she found her husband, Derek, at a thrift shoppe are unfounded.

Featured in Collectors News:
"Dahlsad is a touchstone of where women have been, what they wore, and
how they carried themselves to get there. She is a historian of how
powder puffs and nail polish have both ensnared and enshrined the image
of womankind."

She's been a paid staff writer at Collectors’ Quest (these are her columns) . Under he own name, and a plethora of pen names), she's also been a columnist at Backwash, b5, Gadabout Media and too many other companies, websites and print publications to name.